After he returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the mechanical voice that rang out in his mind once again proved that his guess had been right.
"Ice God Ninth Trial: defeat the Asura God. During the trial, the candidate will obtain full authority over the Ice God Power. Upon completion of the trial, the candidate will directly inherit the God Position."
Hearing that voice, Ning Bei almost laughed from sheer anger. Just how much faith did the Ice God have in him—or how little self-awareness did she have? A first-level god issuing a trial that required him to defeat a God King? Was she serious?
But at that moment, the oppressive feeling in Ning Bei's heart instead vanished without a trace. In any case, this illusion trial might not actually require him to truly defeat the Asura God. Maybe it was testing his courage? The nerve to draw his sword against someone stronger, or to seek life from the jaws of death? Otherwise, what meaning was there in issuing a trial that was completely impossible to complete?
Once he figured that out, Ning Bei instantly shrugged off all the pressure on his shoulders. Or rather, that pressure could no longer bring him any sense of oppression at all.
On the journey back, Ning Bei directly announced that he was entering seclusion, shutting out all outside affairs as he began studying the Final Battle with Tang San. Even inside an illusion, he had no intention of letting that Little Rascal have an easy time.
Day after day passed. The Tang Sect also assisted the Star Luo Empire in completing its annexation of the Heaven Dou Empire. In this illusion, the decades of painstaking arrangements Little Angel had made were destroyed in one stroke, and Tang San, who had ultimately